Originally Posted by
TangoAlphad
So basically in the last 8000' to surface of aircraft actual altitude the airplane will be actually doing anything from 1500 feet per minute to 800 feet per minute. These are both above what is comfortable to a non aclimitised passenger to non pressurized flight.
I remember many years ago when I used to sell unpressurised commuter aircraft in Canada, we used to counter that argument, somewhat disingenuously, by saying that the lift at the CN tower went up and down at 1200 fpm.
